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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Category: Adversity Author: Michel de Montaigne
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I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
Category: Boldness Author: Michel de Montaigne
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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
Category: Cats Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Category: Confidence Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Category: Confidence Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Category: Courage Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Category: Dreams Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Category: Environment Author: Michel de Montaigne
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
Category: Equality and Difference Author: Michel de Montaigne
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There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
Category: Failure Author: Michel de Montaigne
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
Category: History Author: Michel de Montaigne
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It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Category: Honesty Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Category: Integrity Author: Michel de Montaigne
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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
Category: Integrity Author: Michel de Montaigne
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There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Category: Integrity Author: Michel de Montaigne
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
Category: Justice Author: Michel de Montaigne
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Category: Love Author: Michel de Montaigne
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The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.
Category: Marriage Author: Michel de Montaigne
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Category: Marriage Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Category: Marriage Author: Michel de Montaigne
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